Westward Expansion

The first railroad to cross the United States was the....

• Union Pacific Railroad
• Central Pacific Railroad
• Missouri Railroad
• Transcontinental Railroad

Why was the transcontinental railroad beneficial to America?

• The railroad was built over mountains that were impassable in stagecoach.
• Railroads provided a faster, safer, and cheaper transportation.
• Railroads allowed People to bring their furniture to the Great Plains.
• Railroads crossed rivers which were difficult to cross earlier.

This animal was greatly affected by the building of the Transcontinental Railroad.

• hogs
• cows
• chickens
• bison (American buffalo)

Which of these not NOT a positive of the Transcontinental Railroad's being built?

• It would provide immigrants and former slaves a chance for employment

• It would link the nation together and would make conflict less likely between regions of the country

• It would lead to increased agricultural production in the plains regions

• It would wipe out the buffalo of the plains

What act divided up Indian reservations into plots of land to be given to the Indian families?

• Hayes Act
• Sherman Anti-Trust Act
• Bland-Allison Act
• Dawes Act

General Custer lead what military battle with the Native Americans?

• Sand Creek Massacre 
• Battle of Little Bighorn 
• Black Hills War 
• The Sioux Battle 

Which of the following was NOT a group likely to move west after the Civil War?

• 2nd/Younger Sons

• Revolutionary War Vets

• Freed Slaves

• Women

This allowed homesteaders to claim 160 acres of land free if they lived and worked on it for five years. The prospect of free land was very attractive to people who could never have afforded a farm back home.

• Lakota Uprising

• Homestead Act

• Reservation

• Drouthy Kansas

The idea that America's expansion from coast to coast was our god-given right and destiny is known as...

• Promontory Point

• Myth of the Great Plains

• Migration

• Manifest Destiny

The Sandcreek Massacre occurred when...

• Colorado militia ignored orders and attacked the Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians as they slept.

• General Custer led an attack at Sand Creek.

• The Dakota Indians were attacked.

• Cheyenne were forced to leave their reservation.